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Category: Man (boy)/mann (gutt)

Hi, and welcome. It’s Wednesday, which means it’s my turn to try to inspire you over at Mo’s Dream Team blog. My card for today features the brand new image Teen Genius. It exists in several versions, mine is a straight haired boy.

I’m planning on giving this card to my nephew. He turns ten in March, and he loves doing experiments, so I think the image is perfect.

I colored my image with Copics and added Glossy Accents to his glasses, the test tube and the laboratory flask.

I cut my panel down slightly and glued it to a topfolding note card made from Papertrey Ink Limeade Ice cardstock. I stamped some bubbles using the same color ink (the bubbles are really confetti from a birthday stamp set from PTI), and a banner with a Norsk Stempeblad AS sentiment on some foam adhesive. Behind the banner I put a tiny bit of a digital piece of paper from Cathy Zielske, and finished off my card with a few Papirdesign enamel dots.

Hi, and welcome. It’s Wednesday, which means inspiration for Mo’s Dream Team from me.

I’ve used Coexist for my card today. It’s a birthday card for a guy who works at a pet store, so I thought this image would be perfect. I’ve colored the image with Copics, and diecut it into a circle. Our first ever Dream Team Challenge is a sketch by our fabulous Lou, and I’ve followed it as closely as I could. She called me naughty for not adding the smaller square panel at an angle, but I simply don’t have it in me to not make it straight. 😉

As you can see, I’ve rotated the sketch 90 degrees counterclockwise on my card, and then rotated the smaller square slightly clockwise to make it straight. With one counterclockwise rotation and one clockwise, we’ve got some equilibrium back (at least that’s how I’m justifying my being naughty) and all is right with the world again. I’ve got far to much OCD in me to be able to add panels at angles.

I’m still working on reducing my pile of scraps, and I’ve used papers from the Summertime (by the sea) collection by Maja Design. The papers with the stars aren’t scraps, that was a whole sheet when I started making this card, but everything else comes from my scraps. I diecut some letters from patterned paper and glued them to fun foam for a little bit of dimension. The buttons are from Papertrey Ink, and the veneer stars from Studio Calico. The twill was once used to tie up pillow cases that I got for my birthday one year. The pillow cases were rolled up with the twill going all the way around, the manufacturer made them that way, so in a way, it’s repurposed packaging. Much better for the environment than just a plastic sleeve, and much cooler to display in the store.

The coloring of this image is super simple. It may look complicated, but it’s really not, it’s just layers and layers of criss cross action with the brush tip of the marker. I start with my darkest color, then go slighty over and further out with the next and then the one after that, all the way to the lightest color. Then I start with the darkest again, and keep building color like this till I’m happy with the result. It’s a bit time consuming, but winds up looking more like fur than many other techniques.

I made the insides simple. A Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment and a few veneer stars. I only had half a sheet of the blue patterned paper I used on the front, so I went with plaid on the insides. I had half a sheet of that, too, so it worked out great.

The back of the card. Another Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment and more veneer stars.

Finally the colors I used for my image. I bet you don’t see FBG2 used very often, but I used it for the eggs.

If you came here from Kalina’s blog, you’re on the right track. If not, feel free to start at the beginning to see what all my lovely team mates are doing.

My contribution is this fairly simple card, featuring Look, Ma! I colored him with Copics and actually did some pretty bold chopping to the image. There’s a pair of training wheels at the bottom left corner of the image, which I trimmed off, I felt the card was more fitting for a somewhat older boy without the training wheels.

I paired my image with some really old (but still amazing) patterned papers from Scenic Route. I’ve used the Metropolis line for this card. I also added a few enamel dots in matching colors, a black sentiment and put my entire front on an A2 topfolding landscape cardbase made from Summer Sunrise cardstock from Papertrey Ink. And that finishes the card.

The next stop on the hop is the delightful Olesya – thanks for stopping by.